![]() ![]() ![]() Months passed before her mother would speak about those parts of her life then unknown to Darznik, but she slowly opened up, recording her story on cassette tapes and mailing them to her daughter. It's only because of Darznik's accidental discovery of a photograph depicting her mother as a young bride next to a man she'd never seen that the story emerged. Her mother's story of being wed far too early and giving birth at age 13 - to another daughter she was then forced to abandon in order to save herself - is dark, hypnotic and well-told. “That's when she began telling me about the Good Daughter. “We were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl,” she writes. She takes a keen eye not only to her own experiences in “The Good Daughter,” but also to those that led to her very existence. The big one is upon us: The Virginia Festival of the Book is the largest gathering of authors, writers and readers in the mid-Atlantic, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a Virginia highlight, Jasmin Darznik, among this year's star-studded crew of literary attendees.īorn in Tehran, Iran, but destined for Princeton University, the weave of Darznik's history is rich and complex. ![]() The Iranian-American author, a Washington and Lee professor, will be a featured guest at this year's Virginia Festival of the Book. Jasmin Darznik turned her mother's early experiences into a rich and complex memoir. ![]()
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